Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-17
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Items of Interest Cleaned From Interior
Exchanges.

The epidemic oftyphoid fever in Monroe
county has been checked.
Thirty-eight persons were baptized by
immersion, at Maiden, last Sunday.
Seven hundred and fifty acres of Fayett
county land were recently sold at S. per
acre.
On Monday night some one threw a
stone through a window in the West Vir-
ginia School for Deaf and Blind and nit a
little girl, hurting her pretty bad.
A. E. Meyers, Treasurer Of Bethany
College, writes a card denying the report
that there was some intention of turning
that institution into a female seminary.
John Virgins, of Cross Greek district,
Brooke county, while hauling lumber TO
Devinney's station, had a heavy piece OF
the timber fall on his leg, breaking the
bone and severely bruising him.
The West Virginia Central and Pitts
burg Railway Company shipped from its
mines at Elk Garden, last week, over eight
thousand tons of coal. Considering the
scarcity of cars this was a large shipment.
At a dance on the river hill in Lubbock
district, Wood county, Wednesday night
trouble occurred between Mike King and
Jim Butcher, and the latter was severely
carved up with a knife in the hands of
King.
Large number OF fish are being killed in
Greenbrier county streams with dynamite.
The P~ocahontas Times says 100 pound Of
bass were recently killed in this manner
near the junction OF Glover creek and
GreenbTier river.
Mrs. Jeannetta J. Butler, well known
in Huntington, who is at present a clerk
in one of the departments of the Govern
ment al Washington, has brought suit in
Cabell county, for divorce. She and her
husband, DR.. Butler, formerly resided in
Huntington, where he practiced his pro-
~fession, that of dentistry.
Ed. Roam, colored, the C%larksburg news
dealer, has made a contract with the e..
w. & G. railroad to sell papers on their
trains. He cOntemplates putting a boy
on the line at an early day. 1t will be re-
membered by our citizens that Ed Is the
bow who was shot in the brain by Jake
| Jiles, near the Weston depot, in August,
1888 Ed is now an enterprising and in
telligeDt young man and has accumulated
some property Weston Republican.
The Jackson County Herald is furnished
with this bit of news by one of its county
reporters: The regulators made a raid
on William Fields house a few nights ago,
went in, ierked the covers off his daughter
Keziah and his granddaughter, Ida Bum
gardener, of Mason City, used very
vulgar talk to the women, inquired for
Jack Parsons, and.gave Mr.. Fields twenty
DAYS in which to leaya. They were dis
guised, but some ofthem were we'll known
to Mr.. Fields family.
Chestnuts have made their appearance
in the market, and are Of better quality
than for several years past. Large crops
will be ready to gather in the mountain
counties in the next few weeks, and owing
to the nor crop the price will be very
low for them before the close of the season.
Our produce houses are shipping large
quantities already aud with the retail trade,
which is not yet fully supplied prices are
kept up to 3a4 cents per pound. Among
the recent large shipments reported from
this place is thirty-siX sacks to Denver,
Col. Shipments are being made by every
express train east and eSt.-Cdrksburg
NewS.
Jesse Rinker, son of John Rinker, living
on Grassy Ridge, near Arch COsner's resi-
dence, two miles from Bridgeport, Grant
county, killed a huge black bear last Fri
day evening, near the Long Glade"
about half q mile from Pigeon Roost. He
was working for a neighbor, and, return
ing late in the evening, came across this
monster of the woods" and taking down
his Winchester rifle sent a bullet into his
head with unerring aim. 1t was so late
that he was unable to secure him that
evening. Next morning he summoned as
sistance and started upon the trail. He
found the bear half a mile from where he
shot him dead.
The first natural gas discovered in Kama
wha comfy, wa found by Captain John
Wilson and a man by the name OF Farrell
Brown, about the year 1918, on Captain
Wilson's farm, on the Kanawha river,
about half a mile below Davis creek.
They were boring for salt water, which
they struck at a depth of about $50 feet,
together with a large flow of gas. They
endeavored to tube the well. for the pur-
pose of utilizing the salt water, but were
unsuccessful by reason of defective tubing,
the tubing at that time being made Of
thin tin, which could not be made to resist
the large force OF gas, it invariably coilap-
sing. The well continued discharging a
large volume of gas for a number Of years,
being kept lighted by passing push boats,
by which the IN of the great Kan
awha river was then conducted.
Burglars have been operating with con-
siderable freedom in Jefferson county OF
late, especially about Shepherdstown. So
bold have they become that citizens have
become alarmed and have overhauled their
fire arms and gotten on a wal footing, and
propose to give the thieves a warm recep.
ton if they can catch them. A public
meeting was held in Shepherdstown aud
resolutions passed requesting the town
council to offer a reward for the arrest and
conviction of the thieves, and also to ap-
point special policemen to patrol the town.
The council, at a special meeting, offered
a reward of one hundred dollars for the ar
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one robbery, and also offered Il standing
reward of fifty dollars for any person or
persons who shall hereafter be arrested and
convicted of committing a burglary in
Shepherdstown.
A most peculiar accident is thus recorded
in the Grafton Sentinel: ION Monday
morning as Mr.. Wm. L. Coplin was re.
turning to his work neal Belington, after
spending Sunday with his family
in this place, he met with a pain
full accident. He boards at Straight Run,
a station on the G. & G., a short distance
below Belington. The train makes a short
stop at this station and Mr.. Copljn wanted
to ride on to the mill. When the train
stopped at Straight Run, Mr.. Coplin ran
into his boarding house intending to leave
his overcoat and valise in his room. As
be hurried through the rooms he stepped
into the kitchen. As he CANE through
the door he saw a baby sitting on the floor
directly on the spot where his foot would
come down if he took another step with
out changing his course. In his endeavor
to keep from iDjurirg the child he changed
his course, but lost his balance and in fall